GASI TO EXPAND COLLABORATION WITH WHO

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A deputy head of the General Authority of Specialized Inspection (GASI) Yu.Galsan Wednesday met Dr Soe Nyunt-U, the Permanent Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to Mongolia. Galsan thanked the WHO for cooperating with Mongolia in health, frontier, quarantine hygiene control, in providing professional and methodological advice, and rendering financial assistance. He proposed collaborating in co-organizing a third National Consultation of Hygiene and Epidemiology and a demo training on measures in case of livestock infectious diseases, in involving state inspectors in regional workshops, in fortifying capabilities of border checkpoints at the “Chingis Khaan” international airport and “Altanbulag” and “Zamyn-Uud” borders. He asked the WHO to give technical assistance to and to cooperate in working out methods of making risk analysis over foods and other products at border checkpoints. In response, Dr Soe Nyunt-U underlined a possibility of implementing these suggestions and appreciated the way the GASI attaches significance to its external ties and cooperation.